The business world has changed! Instead of pushing people to achieve, successful leaders pull people to succeed, requiring a new skill set to make it to the top. Learn how to stop managing and start leading, to play a vital part in your organization's future. A good manager is not always a good leader.

This program focuses on the business value of engagement and the important role a manager plays in employee engagement. Managers will learn and practice the steps to take to lead a team of fully engaged employees and to sustain those high levels. In this six-hour, three session Live Online workshop, participants will commit to and practice the proven attributes, actions, and behaviors they can implement to build, strengthen, and sustain a fully engaged workforce.

This 3-hour Live Online workshop highlights several different problem solving tools and methods for gathering and analyzing data to make the process efficient and interactive. Decisions often need to be made quickly or under pressure which can lead to stress on individuals and teams. Learn to apply practical principles that can minimize stress that impedes sound decision-making.

In this interactive, one-hour webinar, you will learn how to gain commitment more easily by conducting the early phases of the sale skillfully. Over-emphasis on closing can feel like a manipulative technique to the buyer and can strain the relationship. The key is to build the relationship throughout the sales process by appealing to buyer emotions and motives. Doing so will improve close ratios and lead to more successful sales.

In this Live Online workshop, you will discuss taking 100% responsibility for customer service. Each time an internal or external customer comes into contact with you, your attitude is showing. You will apply Dale Carnegie principles and identify ways to maintain a friendly, low pressure and high service environment that makes customers want to come back to you in the future.

Building a team can be both a challenging and productive experience when a leader has the skills to capitalize on the strengths each person brings to the team. Different generations provide diversity and bring a unique mindset, work style, and communication style. Qualifications, skills, and knowledge are definitely important; however, the ability to relate to others, establish rapport, and demonstrate a positive attitude can only be determined through an interview. Asking behavior-based questions can help you differentiate candidates and choose the right person for the team. Once each individual is hired, the first 30 days are critical to successful on-boarding, as your team will need to trust you and believe in you in order to follow you.

This workshop provides effective coaching techniques and other tools to help close the gap between expected performance and actual results. After completing this session, participants will coach for improved performance by following a step-by-step process and use the appraisal meeting to focus on future growth and training for others.

This 3-hour Live Online workshop is designed for sales people who want to increase their close rates through more effective presentations. The program provides an overview and flow of a sales presentation and highlights the ideas that people need to know and practice to get started. In addition to sales presentations, it emphasizes how we should present ourselves in any situation. It is especially useful for people involved in consultative selling.

FOUR-SESSION SEMINAR -- Now you can learn to tap into your latent power, unleash your inner attitudes of confidence and enthusiasm and build your visibility in the organization at Confident, Assertive, In Charge: Developing the Attitudes of Leadership. Take that first step in transforming yourself from a follower into a leader- right from your desk.

In this session you will explore useful tips and actions that can help you regain your sense of balance.

By analyzing our current levels of energy and focus in each aspect of life – work, family, health, community, spirituality, social life, and finances – we can determine how satisfied we are with each, identify potential stressors, and plan a course of action based on what is truly important to us.

Cross-selling and up-selling create value for both you and your customers. Opportunities to help guide customers to make better buying decisions arise when you ask the right questions, make appropriate suggestions, and present options in a manner that does not seem pushy.

Part of successful organizational leadership is having the ability to assert the power of your position without intimidating others to the point where they are hesitant to take initiative. For staff members to respect you, they need to feel that you are approachable and able to keep your emotions in check. By applying Dale Carnegie’s principles, and by gaining the willing cooperation of others, you become a catalyst for beneficial outcomes for your colleagues, customers, and yourself.

In today's leaner and faster business world, managers are expected to do more with less. It is more important than ever for managers to effectively delegate projects and tasks. This program will give you the tools to develop valuable team members by building productivity and engagement, while maintaining accountability and control.

Left unresolved, disagreements with others can waste time and energy, and also negatively impact productivity. For many, the normal reaction is to avoid disagreements in order to maintain a peaceful work environment. Yet we can gain so much from those with whom we disagree if we can learn to view these situations as learning opportunities, and deal with them in an agreeable and professional way. In this webinar, you will gain insights into your personality and reactions when dealing with differences of opinion surrounding your "hot buttons." You will learn to give others the benefit of the doubt and how to practice expressing yourself in a way that promotes acceptance, agreeable outcomes, and improved productivity.

In this fast-paced, one-hour Live Online webinar you will learn how to create such SMARTER goals for personal and professional success. You will see why it is important to both dream big, but then focus small, to overcome common obstacles. And you’ll walk away with ten tips that can be key to achieving results and improving your performance.

In this fast paced, interactive webinar you'll learn to use activities to energize your next online meeting. This webinar will help identify what's unique about running an online meeting and what's needed to make it an interactive experience.

Getting Results Without Authority is part of the Keys To Success Webinar Series. In this Webinar, you will learn the characteristics you need to have, and actions you need to take, to get maximum results from people who don’t work directly for you. You’ll learn how to influence others by building authentic trust, credibility, and respect, thereby gaining their willing cooperation when you need it most.

Successful leaders and managers take an active role in goal setting and hold their people accountable. But doing so in a supportive way is critical for the members of the team to feel that what they do makes a difference, keep engagement levels high, and ultimately achieve optimal results. This two-hour Live Online workshop will help you instill in your team the importance of individual, team, and development goals, and create a culture of high performance. You will learn tips to build employee engagement that drives positive outcomes, and best practices for holding individuals and teams accountable to the agreed upon goals.

What does it take to build and manage a successful virtual team? Dispersed workforces are today’s norm, and while virtual teams can be similar to traditional ones, leaders can no longer rely on only face-to-face communication and team building methods to build a productive virtual team. The digital age is changing the way we work, play, communicate and think. It is an exciting frontier that rewards those that step up to the challenge and develop new levels of competence. While it may seem difficult to keep pace with technological changes, the abundance of new, user-friendly tools actually make it easier to lead and collaborate across distance than ever before. This Live Online webinar introduces the tools, attitudes and actions leaders need to encourage maximum performance in team members.

If you're like most sales people you can think of a million excuses not to cold call because - let's face it - you hate it. The rejection and sense of failure are tough to take. But cold calling is necessary to success since new business often accounts for as much as 50% of your production. Take the stress out of cold-call days and improve your hit ratio.

FOUR-SESSION SEMINAR -- Have you ever been awed by someone who always seems to know what to say and how to say it in any situation? They know how to communicate with diplomacy, tact and confidence; and now you can acquire these same skills at this new seminar. Gain the skills you need to deal with all kinds of people- right from your desk!

FOUR-SESSION SEMINAR -- Based on the classic teachings from the book How to Win Friends and Influence People, this live online event from Dale Carnegie Training will show you ways to achieve enlightened interpersonal effectiveness. You'll gain a holistic perspective by looking at what triggers you, and how your attitude affects communication outcomes.

Our online learning environment is designed to be engaging, interesting, informative, and above all, interactive. We want your experience to be great, so that you can apply useful Dale Carnegie principles in your work and personal life. This FREE, 30-minute, interactive session introduces you to the Live Online experience, tests your audio connection, and teaches you how to use the many learning tools used in Dale Carnegie Digital webinars, workshops, and seminars.

In this two-hour Live Online workshop we will examine the challenges of change leadership and the mistakes that often result. We will incorporate principles for leading organizational change, leading individuals during times of change, and managing our own reactions to change. Out of this discussion, you will create a draft of a change leadership plan. By creating and following through on this plan, you can take a more organized approach to leading organizational change.

Leading a team of diverse generations can be an incredibly rich and productive experience when you have the skills in place to capitalize on the strengths of each generation. This program provides insights and tools to help you turn the attitudes and skills each generation brings to the table into powerful performance drivers. You will learn the approaches that will most often help you lead members of each generation, resulting in an engaging and productive work environment for everyone.

Nothing can destroy productivity, derail projects and make you look bad faster than workplace conflict.Whether it's the kind that smolders just beneath the surface or it's become open warfare, conflict can paralyze your group, department or entire company. And, unfortunately, the unpleasant task of resolving conflicts falls on your shoulders. But now there's help.

It is a simple truth: customers continue to do business with organizations that deliver on what they promise and who have treated them fairly. You have far more potential to develop long lasting relationships and future business success by managing customer expectations in a consistent way. Acquire the tips you need to set, monitor, and influence customer expectations for greater business impact.

TWO SESSION WORKSHOP - Overall, virtual teams are very similar to traditional face-to-face teams. After all, people are people. We may communicate today with different tools and greater speed, but Dale Carnegie’s advice on how to communicate, lead and work efficiently remains priceless across the ages. This two-session Live Online workshop will help equip leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary to lead virtual teams to new levels of effectiveness.

The list of stress producers in today's world grows longer by the minute. People react differently to living in this pressure cooker. Some become aggressive; others become passive; and some just shut down altogether.

TWO-SESSION WORKSHOP -- Dale Carnegie Digital® is excited to partner with Marshall Goldsmith to make one of the most effective management development methodologies accessible, convenient, live and online! Experience the merging of our world-renowned training and that of leadership development expert, executive coach and author, Marshall Goldsmith from his New York Times best seller and Wall Street Journal #1 business book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

Applying a proven negotiations process helps people know where they are going and how to plan for success. In this two-hour workshop, you will learn techniques such as building rapport; analyzing the actions, needs, and agendas of all parties; using effective strategies such as presenting alternatives; bargaining in good faith; and finalizing agreements so that everyone "wins" something that they want. By doing so you will be able to gain cooperation and increase the likelihood that future interactions will be positive.

In this interactive, one-hour webinar, you will be given a simple yet effective eight-step process for resolving complaints, as well as some key guidelines to follow in dealing with challenging customers. You will also learn the five approaches to engage customers and build loyalty, and a useful process for gaining customer referrals without being pushy or aggressive.

Negative attitudes spread to the point where they eventually affect performance and decision-making. That's the bad news. The good news is that enthusiasm and positive attitudes spread just as quickly and affect performance just as much -- in the right direction.

An effective performance review can be an opportunity for honest, open conversation about positive and negative results. It can inspire and engage people when it is focused on plans for the future. By setting expectations and helping associates to create achievable targets well in advance, then coaching and providing adequate feedback throughout the year, performance management becomes part of the culture rather than a dreaded annual event.

Great conversationalists are able to find connections with others by asking the right questions and learning team members’ likes and dislikes. As a result of these relationships, trust is formed and teamwork comes more naturally. In this fast-paced webinar, you will hone the skills needed to have powerful conversations that will improve professional relationships, build trust, and get real results.

In this interactive, one-hour webinar, you will focus on how to better present on topics you know well but your audience considers complex or full of new information. The key is to plan out the best approach for listeners so that they can more easily receive the information. Sequencing information in a logical way and in manageable chunks helps them stay engaged, and analogies can be a critical tool for connecting with what your audience already understands. You’ll walk away with other best practices for support materials, visuals, and presentation delivery that will help you plan for your next presentation.

If you have ever needed to persuade others through a presentation, you know there are a host of challenges to doing so effectively. By putting yourself in the listener’s situation, a presenter can more easily see the audience’s point of view and appeal to their interests. It is also critical that you have a message that is clear, concise, and easy to understand. In this interactive, one-hour webinar you will learn a proven structure for organizing a persuasive presentation, identify ways to use audience-appropriate evidence, and learn other best practice tips for presenting to persuade.

A presentation is one of the most important tools a professional has for getting things done and influencing others. Whether you are persuading colleagues, selling to a client, energizing a team, or recommending an idea to senior leaders, an effective presentation can be the difference between your success and failure. This interactive, one-hour webinar will help you focus on the visual, vocal, and verbal components of presentation delivery so that your message has the intended impact on your audience.

Presentations that Influence People is a powerful online program designed to walk you through how to create a complete presentation online from concept to printout! A certified Dale Carnegie Trainer teaches you by video in segments while you plan your successful presentation. You will build your presentation while you take the course, then print it when you are finished, in 1 hour or less!

When you order this program you will get one full year of on-demand access to the course, allowing you to repeat it at your convenience, and access your notes at any time! You will receive your username and password in a separate e-mail within 24 hours of purchasing this course.

Successful organizations today must communicate quickly and effectively across geographic boundaries. Presenting online is often the best solution to get information and training to the people who need it most, when they need it. If you are tasked to be the next online presenter in your organization, this session will help you shine!

In this Keys to Success Webinar, you will learn techniques to help you remember names when you need them. They are the basis for being able to more effectively grow and tap into your network of contacts. Find out which tools and formulas you can use that will help you remember the name of just about any person you will ever meet!

Teams come in many forms, but whether you’re part of a business, community, technical, creative or even temporary team, using the Dale Carnegie Human Relation Principles and a proven method for recognition and appreciation will energize everyone’s performance! You’ll learn to apply these principles to build trust, identify opportunities, recognize potential, and express appreciation to inspire commitment and innovation in your workplace.

In this webinar, you will learn to build on your strengths, advocate for what you need to be successful and use the right language to do so. You will learn strategies to boost your confidence, 10 tips to build assertiveness, and the Dale Carnegie principles of cooperation to influence and effectively lead your team.

TWO-SESSION WORKSHOP -- This dynamic two-session program will help you identify and overcome 20 of the most common interpersonal challenges often found in leadership behavior. And, of course, you'll get the basics like time management, delegation and performance appraisal techniques.

Most of us do not need to be convinced about the importance of planning. Research and anecdotal examples abound describing organizations that have thrived or failed due to adequate or inadequate planning. But success takes more than planning – it requires new ways of thinking about who we are as organizations. You can either create your own destiny or be at the mercy of the moment. In this three-hour Live Online workshop, participants will learn the essentials of strategic planning and prepare their organization for future success.

Many leaders in key positions are becoming eligible for retirement. There is a great sense of urgency to proactively plan to replace a key talent. The expense and risk associated with bringing in candidates from the outside is high. Compounding this problem, the supply of job-ready replacement candidates is often limited. As HR professionals or managers, if you’re unsure where to begin, or are looking for a fresh approach to speed up the process, this webinar can help.

Successful Public Speaking uses the foolproof methods of Dale Carnegie to turn the participant from a nervous novice into a confident presenter. Dale Carnegie believed that public speaking is a skill to be learned, not an inborn trait. He validated that belief year after year by turning out the most accomplished speakers in the world. In this session, participants will learn the very same skills that Dale Carnegie himself used to create generations of politicians, community leaders, and successful business people.

FOUR-SESSION SEMINAR -- This seminar offers practical techniques to help you focus on results, not tasks. Undo destructive habits and consciously choose to establish healthy, productive habits that yield long term benefits. You'll learn how to lock out mental distractions so that you can eliminate time wasters and concentrate on your priorities.

This 3-hour Live Online workshop provides useful strategies and guidelines for successfully resolving customer complaints. Using the Restore and Retain Equation can help turn a complaint into an opportunity to create a loyal customer. Cross and up selling opportunities can result from a well-handled complaint. Finally, examining root causes of your common complaints can help you find ways to reduce or eliminate them. By effectively resolving complaints you can reduce stress, build relationships, and improve customer loyalty and retention.

This six-part, twelve-hour Live Online seminar is designed to overcome one of the biggest challenges that shared services (such as HR, IT, Finance and Accounting, as well as consultative sales people) face in organizations today – being viewed as a transactional or commodity resource versus a true business partner. Included are such key elements as: developing rapport and trust, designing solutions that advance stakeholders’ strategies, strengthening leadership and influence, managing resistance and conflict, and more.

A mentor provides professional advice and support. He or she willingly shares knowledge, experience and often personal and professional network contacts. Successful mentoring can help less experienced individuals navigate away from costly mistakes. For a mentor, the relationship provides an opportunity to gain a fresh perspective and the satisfaction from guiding others to professional success. In this two-hour Live Online workshop, learn what it takes to make the launch of your program successful and avoid the challenges that often derail organizational initiatives

FOUR-SESSION SEMINAR --Do today's best leaders dictate change, or inspire it? Do they tell employees what to do, or influence their choices and assist them in reaching their performance goals? The best leaders adapt and lead by example, creating an environment of engagement and accountability for their teams. This four-session Live Online seminar will teach you how to stop managing and start leading; to stop pushing and start pulling. You will have ample time to develop and practice the skill set of the modern leader, making you a vital part of your organization's future.